Donna Perry
Biographic Data
| ID | 3618404 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Donna Perry |
| GIVEN NAMES | Donna |
| FAMILY NAME | Perry |
| SIGNATURE | PERRY D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Western Oregon University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 68 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Fathers, Sons, and the State
This essay builds on fieldwork in rural Senegal to examine three cases in which elder household heads called on gendarmes to physically discipline rebellious youths. These cases, which revolved around harsh acts of corporal punishment, invite inquiry into common assumptions about African families and states. The first assumption is the common dichotomy drawn between African youths, portrayed as modern and menacing, and African elders, portrayed a…
Wolof Women, Economic Liberalization, and the Crisis of Masculinity in Rural Senegal
Among Wolof farmers in Senegal's Peanut Basin, patriarchal control of household dependents has diminished in conjunction with economic liberalization, state disengagement, and the formation of rural weekly markets. This article builds on twenty-six months of ethnographic fieldwork to explore a crisis of masculinity expressed by men in their oral testimonies and everyday discourse. In domestic struggles over labor and income, male control over wom…
Muslim Child Disciples, Global Civil Society, and Children's Rights in Senegal
This paper examines Muslim child-disciples (talibés) who beg on the streets in urban Senegal. It interprets, from the perspective of Wolof farmers, why parents send their sons to live with marabouts (Muslim sages). It then contrasts Wolof understandings of talibés with the discourses produced by children's rights advocates. It argues that while indigenous rights advocates employ "strategic essentialism" to promote minority groups' claims, advocat…
Money Has No Smell
Microcredit and Women Moneylenders
This paper analyzes the new role rural Senegalese women play as moneylenders in their agrarian communities. The shifting terrain of local credit institutions parallels contemporary trends in rural development: state-led agricultural cooperatives which were introduced in 1960 formerly bolstered the position of elite farmers who lent out cash and grain to poor farmers during the dry-season months of scarcity. Agricultural cooperatives were abolishe…
Millennial Capitalism and the Culture of Neoliberalism (review)
Reviewed by: Millennial Capitalism and the Culture of Neoliberalism Donna Perry Millennial Capitalism and the Culture of Neoliberalism. Edited by Jean and John L. Comaroff. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2001. Millennial Capitalism and the Culture of Neoliberalism, by Jean and John L. Comaroff, is an eclectic mix of articles by anthropologists and geographers, as well as a photographer and an economist. Focused on millennial capitalism…
Rural weekly markets and the dynamics of time, space and community in Senegal
This article examines reciprocal relations among Wolof small farmers in Senegal after the emergence of rural weekly markets (loumas) and the implementation of neoliberal policies in the 1980s. Contrary to the notion that markets are a force of social dissolution, new trading practices and free market policies have not weakened community relations among small farmer neighbours and kin. Rather, the spatial and temporal patterning of loumas has serv…
Village Groups and Weekly MarketsDefining a New Social Movement
Fathers, Sons, and the State
This essay builds on fieldwork in rural Senegal to examine three cases in which elder household heads called on gendarmes to physically discipline rebellious youths. These cases, which revolved around harsh acts of corporal punishment, invite inquiry into common assumptions about African families and states. The first assumption is the common dichotomy drawn between African youths, portrayed as modern and menacing, and African elders, portrayed a…
Wolof Women, Economic Liberalization, and the Crisis of Masculinity in Rural Senegal
Among Wolof farmers in Senegal's Peanut Basin, patriarchal control of household dependents has diminished in conjunction with economic liberalization, state disengagement, and the formation of rural weekly markets. This article builds on twenty-six months of ethnographic fieldwork to explore a crisis of masculinity expressed by men in their oral testimonies and everyday discourse. In domestic struggles over labor and income, male control over wom…
Muslim Child Disciples, Global Civil Society, and Children's Rights in Senegal
This paper examines Muslim child-disciples (talibés) who beg on the streets in urban Senegal. It interprets, from the perspective of Wolof farmers, why parents send their sons to live with marabouts (Muslim sages). It then contrasts Wolof understandings of talibés with the discourses produced by children's rights advocates. It argues that while indigenous rights advocates employ "strategic essentialism" to promote minority groups' claims, advocat…
Rural weekly markets and the dynamics of time, space and community in Senegal
This article examines reciprocal relations among Wolof small farmers in Senegal after the emergence of rural weekly markets (loumas) and the implementation of neoliberal policies in the 1980s. Contrary to the notion that markets are a force of social dissolution, new trading practices and free market policies have not weakened community relations among small farmer neighbours and kin. Rather, the spatial and temporal patterning of loumas has serv…
Money Has No Smell
Village Groups and Weekly MarketsDefining a New Social Movement
Village Groups and Weekly MarketsDefining a New Social Movement
Rural weekly markets and the dynamics of time, space and community in Senegal
This article examines reciprocal relations among Wolof small farmers in Senegal after the emergence of rural weekly markets (loumas) and the implementation of neoliberal policies in the 1980s. Contrary to the notion that markets are a force of social dissolution, new trading practices and free market policies have not weakened community relations among small farmer neighbours and kin. Rather, the spatial and temporal patterning of loumas has serv…
Microcredit and Women Moneylenders
This paper analyzes the new role rural Senegalese women play as moneylenders in their agrarian communities. The shifting terrain of local credit institutions parallels contemporary trends in rural development: state-led agricultural cooperatives which were introduced in 1960 formerly bolstered the position of elite farmers who lent out cash and grain to poor farmers during the dry-season months of scarcity. Agricultural cooperatives were abolishe…
Millennial Capitalism and the Culture of Neoliberalism (review)
Reviewed by: Millennial Capitalism and the Culture of Neoliberalism Donna Perry Millennial Capitalism and the Culture of Neoliberalism. Edited by Jean and John L. Comaroff. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2001. Millennial Capitalism and the Culture of Neoliberalism, by Jean and John L. Comaroff, is an eclectic mix of articles by anthropologists and geographers, as well as a photographer and an economist. Focused on millennial capitalism…
Muslim Child Disciples, Global Civil Society, and Children's Rights in Senegal
This paper examines Muslim child-disciples (talibés) who beg on the streets in urban Senegal. It interprets, from the perspective of Wolof farmers, why parents send their sons to live with marabouts (Muslim sages). It then contrasts Wolof understandings of talibés with the discourses produced by children's rights advocates. It argues that while indigenous rights advocates employ "strategic essentialism" to promote minority groups' claims, advocat…
Money Has No Smell
Wolof Women, Economic Liberalization, and the Crisis of Masculinity in Rural Senegal
Among Wolof farmers in Senegal's Peanut Basin, patriarchal control of household dependents has diminished in conjunction with economic liberalization, state disengagement, and the formation of rural weekly markets. This article builds on twenty-six months of ethnographic fieldwork to explore a crisis of masculinity expressed by men in their oral testimonies and everyday discourse. In domestic struggles over labor and income, male control over wom…
Fathers, Sons, and the State
This essay builds on fieldwork in rural Senegal to examine three cases in which elder household heads called on gendarmes to physically discipline rebellious youths. These cases, which revolved around harsh acts of corporal punishment, invite inquiry into common assumptions about African families and states. The first assumption is the common dichotomy drawn between African youths, portrayed as modern and menacing, and African elders, portrayed a…
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